Students will be able to identify unknown samples using the information learned about mineral classification.
Students will understand the Mohs hardness scale.
Students will be able to compare unknowns to the Mohs hardness scale.
Students will understand the characteristics such as luster, cleavage, fracture, color, transparency, and magnetism which are used to identify minerals.
Students will be able to explain the difference between cleavage and fracture.
Lesson II
Students will understand the three different types of rock
Students will understand the terms magma and sediment and the role they play in the rock cycle.
Students will understand the processes by which rock can be changed into another type of rock.
Students will create the rock cycle from the information they have learned about rocks in class and off the interactive tool.
Students will use technology to examine how rocks are transformed in the rock cycle.
Students will create the rock cycle including all of the following steps: melting, cooling, weathering, erosion, heat and pressure, compacting and cementation.
Lesson III
Students will understand the terms associated with the water cycle (sublimation, percolation, transpiration, infiltration, condensation, evaporation, subsurface runoff, surface runoff and precipitation)
Students will be able to identify the different stages of the water cycle.
Students will be able to explain the different stages in the water cycle and how water flows through the cycle.
Lesson IV
Students will assemble a materials list from the available materials to construct a water cycle with their groups and with the aid of a guided work sheet will identify the different components observed in the model they created
Students will create a procedure for constructing the water cycle model.
Students will construct the water cycle from the available and explain the water cycle in terms of their observations.
Students will explain the water cycle in terms of their observations of their model.
Students will assess their models for possible changes they could make to create a more realistic model of the water cycle
Lesson V
Students will be able to describe mechanical weathering
Students will examine through mechanical weathering through an antacid demonstration
Students will understand the concept of frost wedging and wedging cause by vegetation.
Students will understand exfoliation
Students will understand thermal expansion and contraction
Students will understand what crystal growth is and how it relates to mechanical weathering
Students will understand the concept of abrasion.
Lesson VI
Students will be able to describe the processes of chemical weathering.
Students will examine mechanical and chemical weathering through the antacid experiment.
Students will be able to compare and contrast mechanical and chemical weathering.
Students will examine chemical and mechanical weathering through the antacid lab and will draw conclusions about both from their results.
Lesson VII
Students will understand and be able to identify different types of erosion.
Student will be able to explain the differences between weathering and erosion.
Students will be able to identify human attempts to combat erosion
Students will able to describe different environments in which erosion would be prominent.
Student will be able to compare and contrast weathering and erosion.
Students will be able to explain examples of erosion in their environments
Lesson VIII
Students will understand the difference between deposition and erosion
Students will examine the features formed by water erosion
Students will understand ground water erosion
Students will through the in text quick lab will examine the layers of sediment and compare and contrast their observation to what would be found in nature
Lesson VIIII
Students will understand how glaciers move
Students will understand how a glacier is formed
Students will understand the different types of glaciers
Students will be able to explain the difference between abrasion and plucking, which are forms of glacial erosion
Students will be able to identify and explain the features which are formed by glaciers
Lesson X
Students will describe the differences between different bodies of water
Students will create a visual representation of their body of water
Students will explain the different characteristics of their body of water
Students will apply they knowledge they have obtained about erosion and weathering to their body of water.
II) National Standard Addressed:
Earth and Space Science
CONTENT STANDARD D: As a result of their activities in grades 9-12, all students should develop an understanding of
Energy in the earth system
Geochemical cycles
Origin and evolution of the
earth system
Origin and evolution of the universe
III) GSE Addressed: Students demonstrate an understanding of processes and change over time within earth systems by … 3d explaining how the physical and chemical processes of the Earth alter the crust (e.g. seafloor spreading, hydrologic cycle, weathering, element cycling).
subtopics in 3d mechanical weathering chemical weathering water cycle rock cycle understanding of minerals and their hardness erosion (e.g water, wind, glacial)
Lesson I
Lesson II
Lesson III
Lesson IV
Lesson V
Lesson VI
Lesson VII
Lesson VIII
Lesson VIIII
Lesson X
II) National Standard Addressed:
Earth and Space Science
CONTENT STANDARD D:As a result of their activities in
grades 9-12, all students should
develop an understanding of
- Energy in the earth system
- Geochemical cycles
- Origin and evolution of the
earth systemIII) GSE Addressed:
Students demonstrate an understanding of processes and change over time within earth systems by …
3d explaining how the physical and chemical processes of the Earth alter the crust (e.g. seafloor spreading, hydrologic cycle, weathering, element cycling).
subtopics in 3d
mechanical weathering
chemical weathering
water cycle
rock cycle
understanding of minerals and their hardness
erosion (e.g water, wind, glacial)